Why No One Agrees on What Their AI Tokens Cost - Pratyusha Duvvuri, Cisco

Pratyusha Duvvuri, who led agent observability at Galileo before it became part of Cisco, asked about 100 companies what "tokenomics" means and got 100 different answers. She shares her definition, the observability and interpretability of token usage and cost, and why engineers, engineering managers and finance teams each need something different from it. Then she demos the tokenomics dashboard her team took from first customer call to GA in 10 weeks: spend by person and team, adoption trends, forecasting and a finance view. She also covers the hard parts, like custom provider pricing and bills that change after the fact. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:12 What does tokenomics mean to you? 1:49 Three trends in AI spend 4:42 Three kinds of users 6:46 Why provider dashboards aren't enough 8:34 A definition of tokenomics 9:18 What you need to get started 10:51 Demo: the tokenomics dashboard 14:35 The finance view 15:48 What's coming next 16:44 Challenges building it Pratyusha Duvvuri Join us in SF for the second annual AIE CODE summit: https://aie.codes our last flagship summit of 2026. Applications live now!